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June 29, 2012
"Save the planet"
I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists,these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. -- George Carlin
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 29, 2012 8:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Why does George Carlin hate my car?
Posted by: Donald Sensing at June 29, 2012 11:57 AM
The planet will be fine, it has been through a lot worse than humans. The planet will move through space if humans are on it or not. You can't save what doesn't need saving.
Posted by: Mike at June 29, 2012 1:10 PM
the green movement is just the red movement with better PR. In Europe members of the Communist Party simply took off their red uniform after the USSR collapsed and advanced the same agenda in a green uniform.
The point is to de-industrialize The West. Some green subscribers want to de-industrialize to punish the rest of us. Some want to de-industrialize to please Mother Gaia. The Reds want us to de-industrialize because it's the closest thing to mass suicide they think we will impose on ourselves.
Posted by: Scott M at June 29, 2012 1:35 PM
I think we should Pol-Pot the Greens. That way they can de-industrialize all they want. We can use their corpses for fertilizer.
Posted by: Don Rodrigo at June 29, 2012 1:58 PM
the green movement is just the red movement with better PR.
This is exactly what some of my European friends of the Christian Democratic persuasion (center-right) say. As they put it, "the green tree has red roots".
@Donald S.: I also drove a Volvo, kept it for 10 years, and put over 300,000 miles on it. I just might buy another one when I need to own a car again. I do miss Carlin, though.
Posted by: waltj at June 29, 2012 7:12 PM
Waltj:
Our family has owned three; every one was a frequently breaking, expensive to repair POS. You couldn't run fast enough to give us one, with a year's worth of free gasoline.
Dave
Posted by: Dave at June 30, 2012 6:19 AM
@Dave: Either I got lucky, or you got very unlucky. The only thing I ever had to replace on my 1980 Volvo (240 series, bought new) other than routine maintenance items was the muffler. I traded it in 22 years ago for a Chevy that did to me what your Volvos did to you. After that, I went back for a time to Fords, which served me well. The last car I owned in the US was an S-Class Benz that I bought when it was just coming off a 3-year lease. Now I live overseas and don't own a car at all. I just catch a taxi when I need to go somewhere. It's much cheaper than trying to own something out here.
Posted by: waltj at June 30, 2012 11:07 AM